Percy Harvin’s contract set to void on Friday

The Bills signed wide receiver Percy Harvin to a three-year contract last offseason, although there never was much chance that he’d see the final two years of the deal.

With base salaries of $9 million for 2016 and 2017, those years were tacked on to make his 2015 cap hit easier to swallow as the Bills had the ability to void the deal after paying $3 million in salary and a $3 million signing bonus in the first year. As Sal Capaccio of WGR 550 points out, those years void on Friday at 4 p.m. and Harvin will become a free agent again on March 9.

Harvin only played five games for the Bills in 2015 because of knee and hip injuries that cast some doubt about whether he’d be back on the field for anyone in 2016 or any other year. Bills director of player personnel Jim Monos said last month that the team is “still not sure” what’s going on with the wideout, although General Manager Doug Whaley later expressed hope of bringing the veteran back for another season.

“We’ll talk to him, see where he is and hopefully he comes back,” Whaley said, via the Buffalo News. “We want him back.”

It’s hard to imagine Harvin generating too hot a market given his injury history which could help the Bills hold onto him at a low price. Banking on anything substantial from a player who has played 28 games for three different teams over the last four years doesn’t sound like all that sound an idea, however.

Banking on anything substantial from a player who has played 28 games for three different teams over the last four years doesn’t sound like all that sound an idea, however.
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No, it does not. Played in 44% of potential regular season games- three different teams, in 4 years. Sooooo,
Welcome back to Buffalo, Percy!
Looking forward to 3 or 4 memorable games in ’16, before you hit IR.
Whaley, you’re a genius!

Another one of Bills GM Whaley’s futile acquisitions.
Many Bills fans seem to think Whaley is one of the better NFL GMs but many of his signings don’t pan out, and also the Bills continue there no playoffs streak to 16 straight years, 2 directly under Whaley.
Whaley is no better or worse than the other six guys that held the Bills GM title.

It would have been a disaster move if Buffalo was stuck with him. Thankfully they are not. However, it was a move a team in their position should have been trying regardless of the outcome. A team like the Patriots could afford to take a shot and hope to make it worthwhile, not Buffalo.